When the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag celebrated an autumn harvest feast in 1621, it is considered to be one of the earliest Thanksgiving celebrations in the United States, according to historians. Days of thanksgiving have been observed by various colonies and governments for more than two centuries.
n 1614, before the arrival of the Pilgrims, the English lured a well-known Wampanoag — Tisquantum, who was called Squanto by the English — and 20 other Wampanoag men onto a ship with the intention of selling them into slavery in Malaga, Spain
